Comments on: Obesity in Chinahttps://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:12:34 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: PsychBLOG.co.uk » I’m [not] the only fatty in the villagehttps://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-8398
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:35:58 +0000http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-8398[…] the causes are many, wide spread, and interrelated. Some psychologists put the ball firmly in the social playing field comparing ourselves to those around us; socioeconomic conditions; levels of education. […]
]]>By: Jamie’s Mind » I’m [not] the only fatty in the villagehttps://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-7087
Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:27:50 +0000http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-7087[…] the causes are many, wide spread, and interrelated. Some psychologists put the ball firmly in the social playing field comparing ourselves to those around us; socioeconomic conditions; levels of education. […]
]]>By: Frankhttps://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-6800
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:35:39 +0000http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-6800I highly recommend the article “What Do Fat Acceptance Activists want from the law”:

]]>By: Doug S.https://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-6745
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:04:49 +0000http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/obesity-in-china/#comment-6745Obesity is best understood as a disease. For whatever reason, the bodies of obese people work very hard at staying fat, even under conditions of caloric restriction; for them, maintaining a “normal” weight requires what amounts to voluntary starvation. Weight seems to be controlled by a number of complicated feedback mechanisms within the body, which, when confronted with a change in caloric intake, seems to prefer to react by modifying caloric expenditure rather than by burning stored fat.

I also wonder if the correlation between stored fat and various health problems is best explained by a third factor (insulin resistance?) that causes both the fat and the health problems. If fat itself caused problems, then surgical fat removal would reduce health risks. It doesn’t.